Jinsun Park's awesome Color Picker concept

What I wouldn't give for a tool like this! Designer Jinsun Park's Color Picker concept is a magic marker loaded with tiny ink cartridges and a color sensor. Use one end of the device to scan color samples, then the other end can immediately spit out like-colored ink for drawings and renderings.

While silicone seems to be the go-to material for kitchen implements these days, Danish manufacturer Scanwood is sticking with good ol' wood--and revamping their package design to draw attention to the material. Their new packaging designs, by Goodmorning Technology, "[emphasize] nature by implying that the product almost grows straight out...

Philadelphia University ID prof is a clever piece of multiple volumetric analyses embodied in an aluminum cube, for the purpose of pouring drinks. The Cube Jigger design evolved out of an experiment to combine the most common liquid measurements for mixing alcoholic drinks into the smallest possible dispenser. The...

Xylobooks, by Gary Robbins of Container Corps, are some seriously heavy-duty notebooks made from wood scraps from a furniture factory in his local Portland, OR. The books "marry old-school bookbinding methods with a clean, modern aesthetic that emphasizes the tactile nature of the materials," connecting the wood to the paper...

In his WTF Podcast the veteran comedian Marc Maron often laments on the boring standardization of contemporary comedians: If he goes into any comedy club and closes his eyes, he states, based on their material and delivery he has difficulty telling one comic from another.That's kind of how we feel...